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Hundreds of employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were laid off this week, including researchers that monitor the health of coal miners.

Two coal-fired power plants provided jobs and a sense of pride to the river village 20 miles east of Cincinnati. Market dynamics and the fight against climate change shuttered them 鈥� leaving economic and environmental issues that still haven't been addressed fully.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has to decide whether or not consumers should get money back after paying subsidies for at-times-unprofitable coal-fired power plants.

Utility executives plan to reduce carbon emissions as residents feel the increasing impacts of climate change.

Some Kentucky lawmakers are determined to protect the legacy industry, even if doing so goes against what power companies say is realistic.

A Bloomberg News/海角社区 investigation found that large U.S. coal companies used bankruptcy and asset transfers to move old mines to shaky new owners, putting at risk federally mandated land reclamation.

The biggest corruption scandal in Ohio鈥檚 history happened right under people鈥檚 noses, and much of the law at its center remains on the books.

The embers of the coal industry still burn bright in a state that owes much of its prosperity to the fossil fuel that powered the country through the industrial age.

鈥淚 water my horses out of this creek down here,鈥� Jeff Ivers says, resting his hand on his horse鈥檚 nose. He looks out over his land: 43 acres, surrounded...

I was only 22 years old in January of 1975, a reporter for The Post, the student newspaper at Ohio University in Athens.Even then, I had a reputation for鈥�